Game-board.



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. PATTON, JR., OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, AND OTHO F.

I-IUMPHREYS, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. I

GAMELBOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,613, dated January 6, 1903. Application'iiled October 28, 1901i Serial No. 80,170. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that we, JAMES E. PATTON, J r. a resident of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania,and OTHO F. HUMPHREYS, a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wrisconsin, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Graine-Boards; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Ourinvention has especial reference to gameboards designed for use in playing games of cards; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.A

In the said drawings, Figure l is a plan view, and Fig. 2 an under side plan view, of our said game-board, shown partially broken away in the second figure. Fig. 3 is a view showing half the device in vertical longitudinal section taken on the line S 3 in Fig. l and the remaining half in side elevation, and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 4 4 in Fig. 1.

Our said device is particularly intended for use in playing a new game of cards, called Ducri, wherein it is desirable that the cards that have been played by the diderent players should be kept separate' and distinct at the conclusion of each turn of play, so that the same hands may be afterward played by other players without knowledge as to the initial playing of said cards; and to that end our board is provided with the card-holding slots and fabric, as hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, c b represent the two box-like halves of our game-board united by hinges c c, so as to be readily folded when not in use. The end pieces of the boxsections are solid; but the side pieces are transversely perforated with series of herizontal slots d c f, which are preferably of varying sizes vertically, so as to each accommodate different numbers of cards, and the outer surfaces of said side pieces are recessed or cut away, as 'shown at g g, to facilitate 5o manipulation of the cards pushed through said slots, with which said recesses or cutaway portions are in communication. In order to aid in holding the cards in place within said slots and permit the board t0 be moved about as necessary in arranging for the next play, the side pieces of the box-sections are lined on their inner surfaces with strips of suitable fabric, preferably of felt, as shown at h h, said strips being further formed with longitudinal slits rl t therethrough in line with the longitudinal centers ofthe described slots d ef in the side pieces. The box-sections inay further be provided with transverse partitions jj to aid in keeping the cards in position, (it being designed to push the cards in about half their lengths, the end piece being, as stated, solid and parallel with the said partitions j and the sections being wholly open between the opposite side pieces for the more ready removal of the cards,) and the tops or outer surfaces of the box-sections are provided with series or rows o f holes k la for the reception of pegs such as are usually employed in keeping score of the points made in playing the game of Cribbage.

lille have shown our game-boa rd made so as to be doubled or folded together; but it will be understood that the described peculiarities of construction for receiving and holding the various sets of cards may be applied equally well to a board made rigid from end to end.

In order to further facilitate the placing of the cards within the desired slots, it is desirable that the portions of the side pieces forming the bottom walls of said slots should 'be further recessed, so that the front edges of said bottom walls should recede in regular order, as shown best in Fig. 4. The bottom wall m of the lower slot f may be vertically flush (at the ends) with the outer face of the side piece, while the bottom wall n of the slot e will be at a slight distance within the outer vertical line of the side piece and the bottom wall o of the slot d still further within said line, so that these bottom walls form, in effect, a series of stepped shelves, and the cards being brought down from above in proper order can thereby be the more readily and quickly guided to their proper respective slots.

Having thus described our invention, what IOO we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A game-board, comprising one or more box-like sections, whose opposite side pieces are formed with series of horizontal cardholding slots extending therethrough, said sections being wholly open between the said opposite side pieces.

2. A game-board, comprising one or more box-like sections, whose opposite side pieces are formed with series of horizontal cardholding slots extending therethrough with Wholly-open spaces between said vopposite side pieces, and with exterior recesses or cutaway portions in communication with said slots.

3. A game-board, comprising one or more box-like sections,whose side pieces are formed with series of horizontal card-holding slots, extending therethrough, in combination with strips of fabric lining the inner surfaces of said side pieces, and provided with longitudinal slits in line with said slots.

4. A game-board, comprising one or more box-like sections, whose opposite side pieces are formed with series of horizontal cardholding slots, extending therethrough, the bottom Walls of said slots forming a series of shelves, whose outer edges recede, in consecutive order, from the outer vertical line of the lowermost of said bottom walls or shelves, l

and said sections being wholly open between said opposite side pieces.

5. A game board, comprising a pair of hinged folding box-like sections, having solid ends, with central transverse parallel partitions, and opposite side pieces, each side piece formed with series of horizontal cardholding slots, the slots in each series being vertically arranged between a partition and a solid end, and each section being wholly open on each side ot' its central partition between its opposite side pieces.

6. In a game-board, a card-holding section, having solid top, bottom, and ends, and slotted side pieces, the outer walls of said side pieces being formed with vertical recesses of varying width between the top and bottom of the said section, the said top and bottom being of equal length, and the inner walls of said side pieces being vertical, with a wholly-open space between their opposed inner faces.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands,l at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of VS- consin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. PATTON, JR. O'lI-IO F. HUMPHREYS.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDnRwooD, B. C. RoLoFF. 

